While playing with my newly found online gaming communication device, Xfire, a fairly catchy ditty playing on the flat screen caught my ear. I turned to the find what the delightfully joyous sound related to and this is what my eye caught:
The Song: Still Alive by Lisa Miskovsky
The Game:Mirror’s Edge developed [...]
November 25, 2008
Categories: The Gamers Angle . Tags: Console Gaming, Lisa Miskovsky, Mirrors Edge, Still Alive . Author: xochine . Comments: 4 Comments
During the evening of Friday, November 21st, T3 Empire/Chaos was in a complete state of disarray on the Monolith server!!! For a majority of the evening, Destruction and Order were see-sawing for position on StoneClaw Keep after Order’s stealthy and swift take over of the High Pass objective.
The open field RvR battle waged on for [...]
November 24, 2008
Categories: The Gamers Angle . Tags: Casualties of WAR, Destruction, Monolith Server, Order, RvR, Server Crash, StoneClaw Keep . Author: xochine . Comments: 1 Comment
Warhammer Online’s current live event, Heavy Metal, awards three rewards; one per influence achievement level. The trophy reward, awarded at the Basic mark, is simply for aesthetics. Of course, the Elite level reward awards the advance week of KoTBS and Blackguard play. What I found most interesting was the Advanced level cloak reward.
Unlike most [...]
November 23, 2008
Categories: The Gamers Angle . Tags: Destruction, Harbinger Cloak, Heavy Metal, Monolith, Warhammer Online . Author: xochine . Comments: Leave a Comment
WOW…I meant to post this last week!
The guild that I’ve proudly joined during my tenure with WAR, Casualties of WAR, was featured on Ten Ton Hammer as ‘Guild of the Week’ for the week of November 10th. You can find the full article here.
It’s a great read!
November 19, 2008
Categories: The Gamers Angle . Tags: Casualties of WAR, Guild, MMO, Ten Ton Hammer, Warhammer Online . Author: xochine . Comments: 2 Comments
IT’S BEGUN…the second Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning live event, Heavy Metal (November 18th – December 1st).
Following the Halloween live event, The Witching Night, Heavy Metal, aka patch 1.0.5, brings a plethora of changes ranging from a few Combat & Career revisions to the introdution of the Blackguard (Destruction, Dark Elf Tank) and Knight of [...]
November 18, 2008
Categories: The Gamers Angle . Tags: Blackguard, Combat and Careers, Destruction, Heavy Metal, Knight of the Blazing Sun, Live Event, MMO, Order, Patch 1.0.5, Tank Archetype, Warhammer Online . Author: xochine . Comments: 1 Comment
A lot of the time I will use music as my vehicle of focus. Recently, I’ve been digging out the cobwebs of the processing factory and started to search for some favorites of my past. One of the songs I came upon was not only used a a medium of focus, but also as inspiration [...]
November 12, 2008
Categories: The Gamers Angle . Tags: Bright Wizards, Patch 1.0.5, Warhammer Online . Author: xochine . Comments: 2 Comments
A continuation of “Witching Witch Elves: The Misconception Pt.2″
The Dynamics of Tier Progression:
WAR takes the standard character progression model, starting a character at level 1 to work it’s way up to level “x”, and mixes it with a tier system. Due to the player vs player, coined RvR, nature of WAR the tier system is [...]
November 11, 2008
Categories: The Gamers Angle . Tags: Career Masteries, Dark Elf, Melee DPS, Warhammer Alliance, Warhammer Online, WItch Elf, Witching Night . Author: xochine . Comments: Leave a Comment
A continuation of “Witching Witch Elves: The Misconception Pt. 1″
Understanding the With Elf:
Contrary to popular belief, Witch Elves can not take out multiple targets within a matter of seconds without an opener. Truth be told, they do not have the AP to sustain continous damage. The WE class is an AP intensive class with a [...]
November 6, 2008
Categories: The Gamers Angle . Tags: Warhammer Online, Warhammer Alliance, Witching Night, WItch Elf, Witch Elves, Melee DPS . Author: xochine . Comments: Leave a Comment
There is a common misconception amongst the Warhammer Online player base that the Witch Elf, Dark Elf Melee DPS class, serves the sole purpose of attacking the enemies healers. Often, I will read negative comments on the Warhammer Alliance forums from both Order and Destruction making mention as to why WE’s are attacking tanks and [...]
November 4, 2008
Categories: The Gamers Angle . Tags: Warhammer Online, Warhammer Alliance, Witching Night, WItch Elf, Witch Elves, Melee DPS . Author: xochine . Comments: 2 Comments
On October 30th at 10pm EST, a few select Thorgrim Server community members held a roundtable discussion regarding the recent server transfer service announced by Mythic. The roundtable was hosted by the Order guild Fallout and consisted of representatives from the following: Bad Guys (O), Serenity (O), Toxian Order (O), Clan of Shadows (O), Alestorm (O), Brain [...]
October 31, 2008
Categories: The Gamers Angle . Tags: Casualties of WAR, Monolith Server, Warhammer Online . Author: xochine . Comments: 1 Comment
Okay, these are my thoughts and my thoughts only! I am not speaking for my guild, Casualties of WAR, nor the Thorgrim server as a whole.
Monolith
Currently my top choice!
The server balance is 1.2:1 (destruction to order), theoretically causing a more enjoyable game play for both sides of the war.
After trolling the Monolith forum boards on [...]
October 30, 2008
Categories: The Gamers Angle . Tags: Monolith Server, Thorgrim Server, Ungrim Server, Warhammer Alliance, Warhammer Online . Author: xochine . Comments: 1 Comment
Today, Mythic announced the Destination, servers that can be transfered to, and Source, servers that can be tranfered from, selections for the highly anticipated and so longly awaited server transfers:
Destination Servers:
Monolith
Ungrim
Magnus
Gorfang
Destination Servers:
Tower of Doom
Heldenhammer
Thorgrim
Sea of Malice
Kragg
Sea of Claws
Mordheim
Grimnir
Be’lakor
Kislev
Middenheim
Rakarth
Saphery
Tor Achere
Reikland
Marienburg
That’s right! 16 Source servers, 4 Destination servers. My current home of Thorgrim being one of the Sources.
It [...]
October 30, 2008
Categories: The Gamers Angle . Tags: Monolith Server, Server Tranfers, Thorgrim Server, Ungrim Server, Warhammer Alliance, Warhammer Online . Author: xochine . Comments: Leave a Comment
“Welcome to a world where you shape the epic sagas that will be told by future generations. Welcome to a world where the fate of millions hangs in the balance as player clans struggle for supremacy. Do you have what it takes to become legend?”
This is the theme to Aventurine SA’s, a game development company [...]
October 22, 2008
Categories: The Gamers Angle . Tags: Add new tag, Beta, Darkfall Online, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft, Xochine . Author: xochine . Comments: 1 Comment